[CCing debian-kde so people are aware of this issue's status]
On October 22, 2005 10:47, Yves Glodt wrote:
> When KDE 3.5 will land in sid, will it this time be compiled with
> hidden symbols (-fvisibility), or is it still considered unstable?
Unfortunately, -fvisibility is still too buggy. The main issues are:
http://gcc.gnu.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=19664http://gcc.gnu.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=19520http://gcc.gnu.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=20297
Once these are fixed, and a compiler with those fixes is deployed in Debian,
then we can take a closer look at enabling -fvisibility. Unfortunately,
this doesn't seem likely before GCC 4.1, and even that might not have all
the fixes we need.
The few distros that currently enable -fvisibility are patching GCC
themselves, and Debian doesn't usually carry major third-party patches for
this sort of issue in a key component (patches like that are often rather
dodgy, not to mention hard to support).
We'd all very much like to enable this feature, rest assured - but not
before it's truly ready.
Cheers,
Christopher Martin